Tech
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Tencent-backed Hike, once India’s answer to WhatsApp, has given up on messaging
India’s answer to WhatsApp has completely moved on from messaging. Hike Messenger, backed by Tencent, Tiger Global and SoftBank and valued at...
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proSapient raises $10M Series A led by Smedvig Capital to expand expert network platform
For several years there has been talk about how to leverage ‘experts’ online. How do you ‘suck their brains’ for information in...
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Samsung vice chairman Jay Y. Lee sent back to prison in bribery case
Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee is back in prison following a retrial of his 2017 conviction in a bribery case...
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326Goama lets developers integrate a social gaming platform into their apps
Goama (also known as Go Games) lets developers quickly integrate social games into their apps. Some of Goama’s clients have used it...
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491Startups at CES showed how tech can help elderly people and their caregivers
The COVID-19 pandemic shined a harsh spotlight on the challenges many elderly people face. Older adults are among the highest-risk groups for...
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Signal and Telegram are also growing in China – for now
As fears over WhatsApp’s privacy policies send millions of users in the West to Signal and Telegram, the two encrypted apps are...
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UK’s Bloom & Wild raises $102M to seed its flower delivery service across Europe
Bloom & Wild, a London-based startup that takes an updated and online approach to the very traditional business of ordering and delivering...
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Virgin Orbit reaches orbit for the first time
Virgin Orbit launched its LauncherOne rocket to orbit for the first time today, with a successful demonstration mission that carried a handful...
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GitHub’s head of HR resigns in light of termination of Jewish employee
A GitHub internal investigation has revealed the company made “significant errors of judgment and procedure” in the firing of the Jewish employee...
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356Threat of inauguration violence casts a long shadow over social media
As the U.S. heads into one of the most perilous phases of American democracy since the Civil War, social media companies are...